Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Brown adipose tissue monocytes support tissue expansion

  • Alexandre Gallerand,
  • Marion I. Stunault,
  • Johanna Merlin,
  • Hannah P. Luehmann,
  • Deborah H. Sultan,
  • Maria M. Firulyova,
  • Virginie Magnone,
  • Narges Khedher,
  • Antoine Jalil,
  • Bastien Dolfi,
  • Alexia Castiglione,
  • Adelie Dumont,
  • Marion Ayrault,
  • Nathalie Vaillant,
  • Jérôme Gilleron,
  • Pascal Barbry,
  • David Dombrowicz,
  • Matthias Mack,
  • David Masson,
  • Thomas Bertero,
  • Burkhard Becher,
  • Jesse W. Williams,
  • Konstantin Zaitsev,
  • Yongjian Liu,
  • Rodolphe R. Guinamard,
  • Laurent Yvan-Charvet,
  • Stoyan Ivanov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25616-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Adipose tissue is composed of a number of adipocytes and a number of other cells including immune cells. Here the authors use single-cell sequencing of murine brown adipose tissue immune cells and describe multiple macrophage and monocyte subsets and show that monocytes contribute to brown adipose tissue expansion.